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Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO): Today's Featured Retail Loser

Family Dollar Stores (
FDO) pushed the Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Retail loser. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.3%. By the end of trading, Family Dollar Stores fell $1.18 (-1.7%) to $67.47 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.2 million shares of Family Dollar Stores exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.7 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $67.19-$69.15 after having opened the day at $69.02 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $68.65. Other company's within the Retail industry that declined today were:
SUPERVALU (
SVU), down 13.8%,
Wet Seal (
WTSLA), down 5.1%,
Pacific Sunwear (
PSUN), down 5%, and
Saks Incorporated (
SKS), down 4%.

Family Dollar Stores, Inc. operates a chain of self-service retail discount stores primarily for low and middle income consumers in the United States. Family Dollar Stores has a market cap of $8.17 billion and is part of the
services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.4, above the average retail industry P/E ratio of 19.6 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 21.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are eight analysts that rate Family Dollar Stores a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Family Dollar Stores as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company is trading at a premium valuation based on our review of its current price compared to such things as earnings and book value.